Irene Montero's threat to Yolanda Díaz

The negotiations between PSOE and Sumar are crossed by a secondary factor with respect to the central issues of the investiture, as well as its result, but which has great importance for the formation of Díaz. Sumar must become an internally established party and structure a political space that has not yet been fully defined, neither ideologically nor organizationally.. The way in which this occurs is entirely linked to the ministerial appointments that Díaz makes from Sánchez..

The calling of the elections accelerated the times of a formation that was about to be built, which had an unavoidable positive effect, because the urgency, together with the poor results of the municipal elections, granted Díaz the possibility of bending his arm to Podemos in Little time. The result of 28-J, which was good for the formation, as well as the possibility of forming a government again diluted (or rather postponed) the latent tensions. But sometime they have to be solved and Sumar is in that process.

Diaz's core

Since Díaz lacks his own party, he must begin by building a hard core from which to create organization. The parliamentary group, in which it has very close deputies, will be its center, along with that group of related cadres, in which Urtasun appears in a preeminent place.. But a parliamentary group and a set of advisors is not a party, unless Díaz wants to continue the dubious path of internal cohesion that Iglesias walked.. Need anything else.

The integration of Más País in Sumar is a priority. In that package, of course, Más Madrid is included. Certainly, if Mónica García ends up getting a ministry like Health, it would greatly facilitate the process.. MM, along with the commons, is the party most related to Díaz of all those that make up Sumar but, for them to become faithful allies, that closeness must be established with concessions of power. It is true that, ultimately, this depends more on Sánchez than on Díaz, but it would be logical for people from both parties to be in charge of the ministries that Sumar ends up starting in the negotiations.. The names of García and Colau are heard, but not that of Errejón.

The Podemos rebellion

Things are complicated in the case of Podemos, and not only because of the evident lack of affinity between Sumar and those of Iglesias. Belarra has repeatedly insisted that Montero should retain the Ministry of Equality, but the PSOE does not seem willing to give it up, and even less so to someone who has been pointed out as a source of problems that translated into loss of votes.. Díaz's incentives are contradictory, since his express desire is to distance himself from the policies followed by Podemos, but that with the need, even if it is by quota, to grant some space of power to those of Iglesias.. Belarra sounds much more than Montero, although not to lead a ministry.

If the positions that Sumar leaves to Podemos do not satisfy those of Iglesias, and even more so with Montero absent from the appointments, the door to a breakup would be open: Montero could appear in the European elections under the Podemos brand, and not as Sumar, which would would imply the complete separation of the paths of the two parties. It will be difficult for it not to happen this way, because the programs and needs of the two formations and their leaders are very different.. Podemos wants its own space and will get it one way or another.

The role of Izquierda Unida

This story is complicated by another of the actors that come together in Sumar, such as Izquierda Unida. Alberto Garzón came out to point out the need to build Sumar as a broad front, which still seemed strange. And not so much because of what it meant to repeat an idea that is not going to prosper, but because he rebelled against the foreseeable lack of space that his formation seems to have in the new Sumar. It must be remembered that Garzón is a minister fully aligned with Díaz, which conveys the feeling that things are getting complicated.

Enrique Santiago, who has also aligned himself in recent months with Díaz, hopes to have a relevant position, but it remains to be seen what will be offered to him if the coalition government is repeated, as well as the lower-ranking positions that fall to him. luck to IU. An ungenerous offer from Sumar would complicate things internally. Given the importance of the European elections, for what they mean and for the resources they bring, if IU and the PCE feel mistreated by Díaz, the incentives to increase ties with Podemos and participate with them in the June elections would be much greater..